Khamta Banerjee - The newly found feudal gourd

Dear Calcutta, 12 months ago sometimes around this time I remember feeling profoundly heartbroken and disillusioned at the choice of my fellow denizen electing Madame Monster and her band of muggers into the seat at the hallowed Writer’s building. I am a Leftist and ardently so. However I did disapprove of a lot of things that the so called Marxist Party had been upto for the last 34 years. But still I deeply revered the intellectual resources of the Budhha Babu brigade which was in no way comparable to the road side thugs, gay women and wannabe television stars amidst other delinquents which formed the (To Murder Calcutta) party. I am sure FBI and CIA will track this post in no time and alert you of its content. At least some movies and books claims these security and intel organisations are very effective when it comes to the anti US. Mrs. Clinton had recently visited Kolkata and it gives me great pride that she enjoyed her brief stay here. It’s a shame that politicians can’t stay long in one place or else the opposition will start commenting on how they are wasting public money. But do come again when you retire with your own money along with your family. The Victoria Memorial will still be here along with roadside tea stalls to welcome you. But I hope that you don't get to see our present Chief Minister whom you liked so much. I don't know whether she said nice things about her just for the sake of friendly relations but if they were from her heart then i doubt her understanding of people. It may also be that she is not aware of her recent bloopers which bought shame to me as a citizen of my state. Calcutta in recent times has come to illustrate the fable of the Raven in Peacock’s plume. We have been implanted with the desires of aping the west, well even as far as Bombay as its westwards. We want Malls, we want Pizza, we want Starbucks and all sundries that Bollywood depicts. Mehendi and dancing has become a ardent part of the Bengali weddings to give you an insight. I had once slapped a cousin sister of mine who wanted to wear “Lehenga Choli” for my wedding. Well I am not here to write a sojourn on Calcutta culture but just to give you an insight how the inherent values of Calcutta was replaced by the greed and gander that consumerism promises. So it was just a matter of time illusions of an eastern London was formed and capitalized on by Mme Monster to lure the blinded denizens into her cordon. CPI(M) was ousted and Calcutta happily ushered in the disease called TMC led by the lethal Mme Monster. Needless to say the numbers of those who grieved at this fatalistic move by Calcutta were few, but genuine. Here in Dubai bottles of Champagne were opened and men and women had dressed like transvestites and had gay sex to commemorate “Poriborton”. We were shunned and publicly humiliated for being Socialists. Some such enthusiasts even gave up on socializing with us lesser ones (A concept I understood much later, as a Theorem 1 of Monster Govt). My wife a fellow empathizer asked me to cheer up, and take up photography to keep my mind of this mayhem. And lo behold it was a matter of time that the can of worms were opened and out came Mme Monster and her brigade contaminating the state. The best was on Last Saturday, whence she called a college going kid as a Maoist – just for asking her the question about the conduct of 2 of her ministers. Here is as she quotes in a letter to the press – “I asked you something that had been on the minds of most people around me, people who voted for 'paribartan' (change). Is this what we expect of our leaders? The ones who set examples and whom people follow. This is all that I wanted to know. What I got to know, instead, is that in West Bengal, asking a question can be the equivalent of being a Maoist” What do we do with this political Jack the Ripper who believes that painting Calcutta Blue – “Yuck” would bring in the change that the people of Bengal had desperately sought. A lot of forums are calling her an idiot, a joker, a dim wit. But friends it has earned her the brand ambassadorship of PEPSI. Now if I sit back and think of the “Hillary visit and the Pepsi felicitation” would you still call me a crooked leftist mind, challenging all that is connected with Mme Monster. A year has been over that you warmed the CM chair with your insane ass and the people in Bengal who once came out in huge numbers to elect you, are already relenting this change. It’s a pity that the youth who campaigned for the TMC some 11 months back wants re-election so that they can vote for the CPI (M) led Left Front not because they are good but because they are the lesser evil or at least that is what they hope now. It seems life for them has not really left them with any other alternative rather than to hope against another political hope. So let’s try and look into some of the news that have making headlines lately and the entire hollowness behind what was once hailed as an historical change. I reiterate that I am biased and my information may not be available on the Star Anandos, ABP and the other so called “Legal” Media. To start with the mis -government of West Bengal has managed to rewrite the High School syllabus (why??? Was it an inspiration from Ray’s Hirak Rajar Deshe and the magoj dholai – brain drain concept) with a definite political motive which has seen most of the history chapters on the Russian Revolution and Marxism disappear. The attempt is a clear drive to brush off any possibility of the youth of Bengal taking interest in the ideas of Marxism. But what the rulers fail to appreciate is this insecurity within themselves and the crisis of capitalism that has made them rewrite history textbooks in a fruitless effort to wipe out an idea. What the stupid oaf doesn’t realize that banned items generate the maximum interest amongst youth (remember Satanic Verses and how it sold). Next came the imposition of severe punishments to holders of dissenting opinions and political opponents. A professor, an academician, whose only crime was to circulate a cartoon of the Chief Minister of Pashchim Banga (formerly West Bengal). I remember years back a similar cartoon was drawn of President Nixon from her ally country. The cartoon depicted Khamata Banerjee as a looter of public money in collaboration with her present Union Railway Minister – Mukul Roy. And as a result the professor was arrested under a provision of law which was never meant for it. Before he was put inside the bar, he was beaten up in broad daylight by some local TMC goons in the presence of local police officials, who were reduced to mere spectators in the whole drama. In fact her ignorance towards the issues faced by the ordinary working people on the ground has been a talking point for some time now. Khamata Banerjee went to the extent of blaming a rape victim for getting raped only to conspire against her government! WOW what was she on, LSD? How many women do we know would call up rapists and say “RAPE ME RAPE ME I GOTTA PROVE A POINT”. Now this is a brand new concept for films, Karan Johar are your listening? Many women’ organizations and activists across the country started rallying against her callousness. But till date the culprits have not been brought to books. In fact the brother of the alleged rapist is a local financier of the party. And that is not all. The police officer who defied Khamata and went on to investigate the rape charges was soon transferred elsewhere. The culprits remain at large and the memory of the rape has been lost to the IPL frenzy. A few news papers who had occasionally criticized Khamata Banerjee’s rule have also been the target of her ire, so much so that, the state sponsored libraries were directed not to renew their subscriptions under a new law which sought to regulate which papers will be allowed in the libraries. The ones that have been kept out are the ones Ms Banerjee herself has been openly been naming in public as being critical of her. And more recently came the senseless move by the state government to evict slum dwellers at Nonadanga to be given away to corporate MNC’s. We gotta build London you see. It reminds me of the 80s movie “Coolie” where the villain apparently “Gaarib ko hatao to Gaaribi khud ba khud maar jayga” which translates “Kill the poor people poverty would automatically disappear. A slum full of refugees and job seeking youth from rural Bengal had come and settled in this locality with an ambition to start a new life with a new job. Nonadanga is what they have been calling home since the time they stepped into the city. A tin roof supported by those loosely held bamboo sticks was all that protected them from the vagaries of the weather. But on the afternoon of an unfaithful April sun, some municipality bulldozers crushed them to dust while the crying mob was being beaten up by the men in uniform. Even pregnant women were not spared. When it comes to state sponsored terrorism, Khamata Banerjee’s government truly has never discriminated against any caste or creed.In a recently held public meeting, Ms. Banerjee had the audacity to face thousands of people and proclaimed that her government deserves a 9 out of 10 if evaluated by the sane. Notwithstanding the insanities of her own government, the point is why would people have to dissent if everything is fine as she claims them to be. The fact remains that people have already become tired of all her boastful lies and fake promises. In a recent move, she has promised to start paying a salary to all maulavis in the state. This did not quite go down well even with her own supporters as the last thing they wanted in the name of change is the same old vote bank politics. Not only does this move goes against all notions of secularism, worse still it comes at the cost of public money in a state that is reeling under a Rs. 2 lakh crore debt. Besides the infighting between the Congress and the Trinamool has reached new heights and how long this partnership will continue is a question mark. What the people of West Bengal really want is a genuine political alternative that stand for the oppressed and the working people of the state and not be like a touchy 12 year old girl. But apparently our CM doesn't have the Tolerance factor in her. As a matter of fact she doesn't even understand the word. I am ashamed of her. She seems to me as a female version of Hoover who is breathing down our necks to brand us Communist and Maoist. Her Maophobia is going out of hands. And the things a Psycopath and a Paranoic can do is quite known to us all. We have left the city at the hands of our own Norman Myer. (Materal contributed from various sources) .>